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Set in the decadent Paris of the late 19th century, this is a fictionalised account of the life and loves of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who became the first living artist ever to be exhibited in the Louvre. Jose Ferrer stars as Lautrec, a man forever troubled by his perceived ugliness and a disability caused by a childhood accident but who nevertheless throws himself into the world he documented, caught up in a riot of can-can and cognac.

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